Ransomware victim disclosure
← All victimsICON Creative Studio
Claimed by Metaencryptor · listed 3 years ago
Status timeline
- Listed
Aug 16, 2023
- Data leaked
At a glance
- Group
- Metaencryptor
- Status
- Data leaked
- Country
- Canada
- Sector
- Media
- Listed on leak site
- Aug 16, 2023
- Ransom demanded
- $410M
- Estimated revenue
- $410M
About the victim
AI dossier — public-source company profileICON Creative Studio is Canada's largest independently owned CG animation studio, located in the Gastown district of Vancouver, BC. The studio employs over 950 creatives spanning design, storyboarding, modeling, rigging, animation, lighting, visual effects, and compositing. Its client roster includes major IP holders such as Disney, Warner Bros., and Clash of Clans, producing feature films, series, theme park attractions, and more.
- Industry
- CG Animation & Visual Effects Production
- Address
- Gastown district, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Employees
- 950
Attack summary
Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor, confirming exfiltration and disclosure of significant business data from a large studio with major entertainment-industry clients; while no explicit regulated PII at scale is confirmed, the published data from a 950-employee studio with high-profile client work represents a significant breach.Metaencryptor claims to have attacked ICON Creative Studio and has published data (disclosed status: data_published); the leak post cites the company's reported revenue of $410M but does not separately specify a ransom demand distinct from that figure. No explicit data size was stated, but the data_published status indicates exfiltration and disclosure of company data.
Data the group says was taken
AI dossier — extracted from the leak post- Internal company files
- Creative/production assets
- Employee records
- Client project data
- Financial/business records
What the group claims
ICON Creative Studio is Canada’s largest independently owned CG Animation Studio, located in the historic Gastown district of Vancouver, BC Canada, housing over 950 talented creatives ranging from design, storyboarding, modeling, rigging, animation, shot finaling, lighting, visual effects and compositing artists alongside creative and management teams.Revenue: $410M
Sources
- Victim siteiconcreativestudio.com
- Leak posthttp://metacrptmytukkj7ajwjovdpjqzd7esg5v3sg344uzhigagpezcqlpyd.onion/0AFC:9bb479e6349e63cb6667d6db855c8dd1/0AFC:5301158f4b7ae0def1279607f4c9d47132ef7d82aeb96394419c30acafc9127c/0AFC:2586d1ca1e6244e55a713a4847b0dc3dc81ea4daad0da892f50959b65bc72a640f249f8301fff897b0775b685bbab48d
Source
Indexed 3 years agoThis page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.
